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MyFitnessPal This app is a calorie tracker. In this app, you can set your height, weight, gender and weight goals, and it will give you your daily calorie count. Then you can track your calories through this app. You can put in what you ate for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Additionally, you can track your water intake and calories burnt through exercising. This app can help you reach your weight goals whatever they maybe - maintaining weight, gaining weight or losing weight. The app has a wide variety of foods. You can also add your recipes in the app.  Duolingo This is a language learning app which is free. You can learn several languages such as German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. The app uses an exercise based learning method. It uses images, words, voice, etc. It can help you become fluent in any language. It can help you learn to speak, read and write in any language you choose. I think the key to learning a language with this app is consistency. Although, I also fe...

Forest The Forest App is an app which uses the Pomodoro technique. Pomodoro means 'tomato' in Italian. And Pomodoro technique is when you use a tomato shaped timer to set a 25 minutes timer to work on any task. And then you take a 5 minute break. This technique is used to beat procrastination. More often than not, after people set the 25 minute timer, they want to continue working and not take a break. Also, people are less likely to procrastinate initially because they don't have to commit to the job but to only 25 minutes. And once they get into the flow, they want to do the task. The Forest app, lets users build a virtual tree/plant while they are working/studying. You can set a timer for anywhere between 10 minutes to 120 minutes and within that time, you cannot use your phone, or the plant will die. And if you cannot work on the task but you have started the timer, you can end the task and the plant will die. At the end of the day, you will have a small forest for all ...

From childhood, we are made to believe that getting a job is the ultimate aim of our life. We work hard on this goal through school and college and we finally achieve this goal and only then do we realize that it was the wrong goal. Working for someone else can never give us the satisfaction and motivation that working for ourselves gives us. All through school and college, we work for ourselves - our grades, our marks, our rank, etc. But in a job, you are working for someone else, someone else's brand, someone else's dream. Of course you are not motivated. Of course you are exhausted. And yes, you are underpaid. All this is a natural response. We need to change the way we look at making a livelihood. We need to promote entrepreneurship at all levels. More than 75% of people who earn in India are self-employed, but these are mostly people who are not educated like tea shop owners, food stall owners, farmers, rickshaw drivers, etc. Even educated people need to do some kind of bu...

Ginny and Georgia This was an amazing series. I really loved it. I especially liked the character of Georgia. She was so badass. Her story was sad though, she was raped by her step father, she ran away from home, got pregnant as a teenager, lived in poverty for years, committed two murders, did fraudulent activities, etc. But everything she did was to keep her children - Ginny and Austin safe. On the other hand, I did not like the character of Ginny much. She was very rude to her mother and thought she knew best when she clearly did not. I also really liked some of the side characters such as Ginny's dad, Ginny's best friend - Maxine, Ginny's ex - Hunter Chen, Maxine's mom - Ellen, etc. I feel like some of the cast were really pretty like for example Maxine and Georgia, they looked like people from magazine covers. The story was also thrilling for me. I would recommend this series. It has two seasons and it is available on Netflix. Wednesday This was another great serie...

Harlan Coben's Shelter Mickey loses his father in a car crash and his mother is admitted in a rehab for depression. Mickey is staying with his aunt in New Jersey when a strange woman tells him that his father is still alive. Mickey meets Ashley who soon disappears. Mickey then becomes friends with Ema and Spoon and they help him to find Ashley. Soon, Mickey discovers that his dad had been working for an organization which rescues people who have been trafficked. An amazing series filled with twists, turns, surprises, secrets, friendships, relationships, drama and action! A must-watch. This series is available on Amazon Prime Video and it has one season with eight episodes. It is an Amazon Original series which is a really quick watch! F.R.I.E.N.D.S This series was amazing. I only watched it because I loved Big Bang Theory and many people who like that show also like this one. And I could see the similarities between the two shows. I liked all the characters Monica, Chandler, Rachel...

Cruel Summer This series has two seasons. This is an Amazon Original series and is available on Amazon Prime Video. Season 1 was centered around Kate who was groomed and kidnapped by the assistant principal at her school - Martin. This season also centered around Jeanette who is rumored to have seen the Kate at the Martin's house and still did not inform authorities. Kate puts a case on Jeanette. And Jeanette does seem shady because she went from nerdy to chic during the time when Kate was missing. She also became best friends with Kate's friends and she also became the girlfriend of Kate's boyfriend while Kate was missing. After Kate is rescued, we also see Jeanette transforming from chic to someone who looks like a cult member. All this makes Jeanette look suspicious. This season is a web of lies, friendship, love, betrayal, transformation, etc.  The second season is centered around Megan who wants to become a software developer and Isabella who comes to live in the small...

'Inspiring Thoughts' by Swami Vivekananda  I have read more than 80% of this book and its quite good. The book has wise sayings of Swami Vivekananda and it also has aesthetic illustrations. I am reading this book in the Kindle version and the Kindle version is free if you are an Amazon Prime member. So do read this book if what you are looking for is a quick yet useful read. There is a similar book which has sayings by APJ Abdul Kalam. I might read that next. The sayings in this book by Swami Vivekananda are quite relatable and easy to understand as well. I do recommend this book. 'Rumi's Little Book of Life' by Rumi This book is a collection of poems by the poet Rumi. The poems were originally written in Persian but have been translated by translators and made into this book which is available in English. I am reading this book also through Kindle and this book is also available for free for Amazon Prime members. I am done with more than 20% of the book and this bo...